50 Awesome Portfolio Websites

Portfolio websites are often excellent sources of design inspiration because every designer and agency wants to create a great impression with a quality design. Portfolio sites frequently show creativity and innovation that might not be as common yet with other types of sites.

While browsing through the portfolio sites of other designers can provide inspiration for your own portfolio site, it also provides inspiration that can be used on all different types of projects. It’s helpful that there are so many high-quality portfolio sites out there that can be sources of design inspiration.

In this post we’ll showcase 50 excellent portfolio sites so you don’t even have to go out and find these great designs on your own. There are a lot of different approaches that you can take with a portfolio site design, and the examples shown here represent a wide variety of types and styles.

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What is very common in many of the above sites to make a nice portfolio page:
– Using open space (mostly white) for the back and not cluttered
– Samples shine in large and clear format
– Short explanation of each
– Slide show or having different samples

Richer,
May 3, 2012

The collection is awesome, unfortunately is not what I am looking for. What I was looking for, are business portfolios, something more complex, trying to do something more different. Anyways, if you can help me with a collection for business portfolios I will really appreciate it. Cheers!

with a quick scroll down this formidable list, the ones that stood out to me were:
kerem – forty-seven media – theory – bronco

i’m not sure if this is because i was scrolling down the page – we don’t view sites in this way, of course. but a designer’s front page will be the key for a prospective client – anyone who is interested will then find the information they need if they are impressed by the front page. this goes for any creative business!

John,
May 4, 2012

@Richer
I didn’t find an exclusive collection of business portfolios, but you could try your luck on http://www.creattor.com. There you will find hundreds of free templates and maybe you will find the one that fits with your business.

Richer,
May 7, 2012

This is more than enough John. I like it very much. The website is very complex, I will use it for other projects! Cheers man!